Michael Mann is suing authors of a blog post that criticized his climate science.
Penn State Professor Michael Mann, creator of the infamous hockey stick reconstruction of climate data, is suing CEI for defamation. In an action filed in DC Superior Court on Monday, he’s going after us, National Review, columnist Mark Steyn, and Rand Simberg, a CEI adjunct who authored a blog post on July 13 that Dr. Mann didn’t like.
Dr. Mann disliked the post because it criticized Penn State’s alleged exoneration of his work in the wake of Climategate, and it originally characterized him as the “Jerry Sandusky of climate science,” who “molested and tortured data in the service of politicized science that could have dire economic consequences for the nation and the planet.”…
The quote is pretty clear and defensible, but let me do what I can to help Dr. Mike out: Michael Mann is to climate science what Harry Reid is to pederasty. Linked by his own wild, self-serving allegations to a heinous form of non-consensusual gratification.